“Forty-two members of what prosecutors call a San Fernando Valley-based white supremacist gang have been arrested in connection with a federal indictment unsealed Wednesday alleging a years-long criminal operation that included drug trafficking, weapons violations and COVID-19 and loan fraud,” KABC reports.

“Crime in the United States dropped throughout the first six months of 2024, according to preliminary figures released Monday by the FBI, continuing a trend in falling crime rates the bureau recently noted for 2023,” CNN reports.

A Michigan man upset about receiving Kamala Harris campaign material in the mail was jailed and charged with felony ethnic intimidation and misdemeanor assault and battery after a confrontation with a postal carrier, the Detroit News reports.

“Federal law enforcement officials plan to announce criminal charges Friday in connection with the alleged Iranian hack of emails from members of former President Donald Trump’s campaign,” ABC News reports.

“The Iranians allegedly gained access to data and files taken from the email accounts of Trump advisers, which included internal documents used to vet Trump’s perspective running mate.”

Oran Routh, the son of would-be Donald Trump shooter Ryan Routh, was charged in federal court this week for having child sex abuse images, NPR reports.

“Death row inmates in five states are scheduled to be put to death in the span of one week, an unusually high number of executions that defies a yearslong trend of decline in both the use and support of the death penalty in the U.S.,” the AP reports.

Axios: Kamala Harris won’t say whether she still wants to end death penalty.

“Prosecutors on Tuesday filed the charge of attempted assassination of a major presidential candidate against Ryan Wesley Routh, the man they say camped outside of Donald Trump’s West Palm Beach golf course for hours on end, armed with a rifle that he pointed through a chain-link fence with a clear shot to the next hole where the former president was headed on September 15,” CNN reports.

“Judge Aileen Cannon, a Trump appointee who oversaw, and later threw out, the federal criminal classified documents case against the former president, was randomly assigned to oversee the case, court documents show.”

“Crime, including serious violent incidents like murder and rape, dropped nationally from 2022 to 2023, according to new data released by the FBI on Monday,” NBC News reports.

“Preliminary numbers showed that 2024 crime numbers were also dropping for the early part of this year, continuing a trend of crime easing as America has come out of the pandemic.”

Donald Trump was the target of what the FBI said “appears to be an attempted assassination” at his golf club in West Palm Beach, Florida, the AP reports.

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) said the state will independently investigate the apparent assassination attempt on Donald Trump this weekend at his golf club in West Palm Beach, the Tallahassee Democrat reports.

“A Secret Service investigation has confirmed security breakdowns that paved the way for an attempted assassination of Donald Trump, while also revealing new information — including that agents never directed local police to secure the roof of the building used by the gunman,” the Washington Post reports.

“A campaign aide for Ohio U.S. Senate candidate Bernie Moreno resigned Friday in connection with a confrontational encounter between the staffer and police officers during the arrest of another Moreno campaign aide on suspicion of drunken driving,” WKYC reports.

“Colton Henson, whom the campaign described as a contracted political adviser, resigned the same day the Chillicothe-based newspaper Scioto Valley Guardian published police body-camera video showing Henson arguing with police officers as they arrested Moreno campaign finance assistant Abby Wright in the Pickaway County village of Ashville on Sept. 1.”

“Federal prosecutors in California unsealed an indictment Monday charging two people with leading an online group of white supremacists that maintained a list of high-profile targets to assassinate and urging group members to commit hate crimes,” CBS News reports.